Gates praises India restraint after Mumbai attacks (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:23 PM PST Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, flying to New Delhi, praised India's restraint and statesmanship following the 2008 Mumbai attacks and remarked at how both India and Pakistan have kept tensions at a "manageable level." |
U.N. panel re-examines Himalayan glacier thaw report (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:28 AM PST Reuters - The U.N. panel of climate scientists said on Monday it was reviewing a report containing a little-known projection that Himalayan glaciers might vanish by 2035, a finding trenchantly criticised by the government. |
India says to sign fighter jet deal with Russia (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:12 AM PST Reuters - Russia will supply more than two dozen MiG-29 fighter jets to India's navy in a $1.2 billion deal to be finalised this week, a defence ministry official said on Monday. |
U.S. and U.N. boost Haiti aid security as food drops in (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:30 PM PST Reuters - U.S. troops protected aid handouts and the United Nations sought extra peacekeepers in earthquake-shattered Haiti on Monday as marauding looters emptied wrecked shops and desperate survivors began to receive medical care and air-dropped food. |
India, EU to focus on trade deal hurdles next week (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:39 AM PST Reuters - Indian and European negotiators will focus on whittling down differences over market access and intellectual property rights when they meet next week to push for a bilateral trade pact, a European diplomat said on Monday. |
Henry to escape punishment over handball (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 10:54 AM PST Reuters - France striker Thierry Henry will not be punished over the handball which led to the decisive goal in the World Cup qualifying playoff against Ireland and sparked one of the biggest outcries in the competition's history. |
Kabul "under control" after brazen Taliban assault (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:20 AM PST Reuters - Taliban gunmen launched a brazen assault on the centre of Kabul on Monday, with suicide bombers blowing themselves up at several locations and militants battling security forces from inside a shopping centre engulfed in flames. |
Boeing to invest $100 mln in Nagpur maintenance unit (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:26 AM PST Reuters - U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co will supply the national airline, Air India, with its first 787 Dreamliner in 2011, and invest $100 million in building a unit to maintain it, its India chief said on Monday. |
Pakistan accuses India of "unprovoked" border fire (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 03:46 AM PST Reuters - Pakistani and Indian forces exchanged fire across their border at the weekend, a Pakistani spokesman said on Monday, the latest in a series of incidents raising tension between the nuclear-armed rivals. |
Google probing possible inside help on attack (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:33 AM PST Reuters - Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack from China that the U.S search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday. |
Maoists blow up mobile network in Gaya district (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 03:39 AM PST Reuters - Maoist rebels blew up three mobile phone towers, destroyed railway tracks and forced shops to close during a day-long strike in Bihar on Monday, police said. |
Three Americans, not 30, injured in Haiti - CNN (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:45 AM PST Reuters - Three Americans, not 30 as reported earlier by CNN, were injured outside the U.S.-controlled Port-au-Prince airport, the news channel said. |
Timing of easy policy exit a challenge - RBI (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:34 AM PST Reuters - The timing and sequence of exit from an easy policy is still a challenge, Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said on Monday. |
India rally after Tendulkar's 44th test ton (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:03 AM PST Reuters - Sachin Tendulkar smashed a 44th test century for India before Bangladesh lost three quick wickets to end the second day of the first test on 59 for three on Monday. |
Global tourism to grow 3-4 pct in 2010 - U.N. body (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:43 AM PST Reuters - The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) is predicting global tourism growth of between 3 and 4 percent in 2010 after a fourth-quarter recovery in 2009, the U.N. body's secretary general said on Monday. |
Turk who shot Pope John Paul released from prison (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:20 AM PST Reuters - The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from a Turkish prison on Monday, rekindling the mystery over whether he acted alone or had been hired by a Soviet-era secret service. |
Sharapova makes early exit from Australia (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 12:47 AM PST Reuters - Maria Sharapova's belated return to the Australian Open ended swiftly on Monday when the former world number one was knocked out just hours after the first grand slam of 2010 began. |
Google probing possible inside help on attack - sources (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:46 AM PST Reuters - Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack that the U.S search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday. |
Afghan forces seize besieged Kabul shopping centre (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2010 01:29 AM PST Reuters - Afghan security forces took control of a besieged shopping centre in the capital on Monday after a standoff with Taliban fighters holed up inside the flaming building, a security source said. |